[Bloodmage]

wipe islam out!

Crusade time, if only we had a real Pope....

[spycosis]

Originally Posted by tiduspr ↗

If at this point in history, humanity can’t evolve past the idea that there is a supernatural sentient force that rules the universe, requires praise, and is the sole reason to keep people in check (it doesn’t), then we really are doomed and no better than the previous societies that believed in gods everyone now agrees are fictitious.

The problem is we are indoctrinated to believe there are 2 possibilities.

1) The religious view - There is a God and we must adore it and do what it says.

2) The scientific view - Your life is an accident, there is no plan and death is black nothingness.

But there's no evidence to suggest either one of those is true. It's possible that we are part of something amazing that is beyond our mortal comprehension and I'd say if life is anything to go by (that we are sentient bundles of atoms that apparently have a free will), then the chances are that the bigger picture which includes the hereafter is also equally ridiculous and awesome.

It is better to free our minds from what we are taught at school on this subject because no school in the world has a fucking clue what on Earth is going on here or outside of this reality. I am an atheist and if you are too, don't be tricked into thinking that option number 2 is the only realistic one.

[spycosis]

Originally Posted by Bloodmage ↗

wipe islam out!

Crusade time, if only we had a real Pope....

Maybe Pope Robinson will lead us into battle one day.

[kenindia84]

Originally Posted by rhubarb_king ↗

Why would you do something like that? Seriously... What is the point of jumping in a car and simply mowing down innocent people who are peacefully trying to have a good time? How on Earth is that a good idea? F*cking hell.. Glad they caught the prick that did that.

Thats Islam for you , you guys have trouble understanding the religion again and again and again.What was the point of abducting , raping and killing Islaelis women and children and then on top celebrating it ? Its the same here as well.

[DarkApe]

Originally Posted by spycosis ↗

I am also a staunch atheist. But you don't have to be religious to believe in Christian values or even in Jesus Christ. You only need religion to believe he was a divine being.

Whether you like it or not, the person JC was a real historical figure who practised philosophy and I personally think it was a pretty good set of values he preached. So I'm down with Xmas.

I presume your refusal to accept Christmas meant you gave all your presents back and went to work on Christmas day? No ??

That's what I thought. You're not very good at this are you ...

Ahem, first of all there are jobs that you are FORCED to not work as it is Christmas. Secondly I have the privilege to work and I also am happy for people around me, who accept that I refuse Christmas and we do not give presents to each other. Because there are people who understand, that it is stupid, that the STATE forces people to celebrate a religious event.

I do not want to not work on Christmas, but in most jobs it is not my choice, so just don't bother me with your presumptions which are quite bad.

I am right, you are not, just live your life and maybe try to fight for the right of other people to have any choice instead of give up.

[DarkApe]

Originally Posted by Bloodmage ↗

wipe islam out!

Crusade time, if only we had a real Pope....

The murderer was a extreme right person as it happens almost daily in Germany currently.

[spycosis]

Originally Posted by DarkApe ↗

The murderer was a extreme right person as it happens almost daily in Germany currently.

Absolute nonsense.

[kellyhound]

The suspect in a deadly car ramming at a packed German Christmas market has written to victims of the rampage in letters sent to their homes with agitated appeals for “forgiveness”, triggering outrage from recipients.

A spokesperson for the prosecutor’s office in the state of Saxony-Anhalt confirmed that at least five people injured in the attack in Magdeburg in December last year that killed six people, including a six-year-old child, had received correspondence this month from the Saudi doctor Taleb al-Abdulmohsen, who is in pretrial detention in Berlin.

The Magdeburger Volksstimme newspaper first reported on the handwritten letters, including their chilling signoff with the formal “Mit freundlichen Grüßen” (with friendly greetings).

“At first we couldn’t believe it,” the newspaper quoted one of the recipients as saying, adding that the letter had triggered horrible memories of the night of the attack.

“We were shocked when we returned from holiday and found the letter in our box,” another addressee told the regional broadcaster MDR. “How can a murderer get the addresses of the survivors?”

A counsellor treating the victims told MDR: “None of those affected with whom I’m in contact is interested in an apology.”

According to local media reports, Abdulmohsen, 50, asked the recipients for “forgiveness” and wished for their recovery, but also included “confused” rants about fellow Saudi asylum seekers similar to complaints he had posted on social media before the car rampage.

He requested visits or responses by letter from the victims or their representatives, adding that they should include in any mail to him a self-addressed stamped envelope.

More than 300 people were hurt, some of them severely, in the car ramming at the festive market on a central square on 20 December.

Abdulmohsen was arrested at the scene of the attack, in which a rented SUV ploughed at high speed through the crowd. Abdulmohsen, a consultant psychiatrist, is being held on suspicion of murder, attempted murder and grievous bodily harm.

It was not immediately clear how he acquired the names and addresses of the victims. Media reports speculated that they may have been included in prosecution files from the investigation made available to defence lawyers.

“We need to check whether the letters could have been held back,” said the regional MP Kerstin Godenrath, who is leading the state parliamentary inquiry into the attack, arguing that the correspondence amounted to a “retraumatising” of the victims.

The national victims’ assistance organisation Weißer Ring criticised the authorities’ approach, with its managing director, Bianca Biwer, telling the news outlet Der Spiegel that it showed “no sympathy for the victims”.

Biwer described the letters as a violation by arriving at their homes. “It puts the victims at the mercy of the perpetrator,” she said, noting that many criminal suspects hoped through such contact to reduce their sentences by demonstrating regret.

Spiegel said the prosecutor’s office had been monitoring Abdulmohsen’s mail but that it had wanted the addressees to be able to decide for themselves whether to read the letters, which it said were enclosed in a separate sealed envelope with an advisory about its content.

However, a prosecutor’s office spokesperson said it had since changed its policy and that if Abdulmohsen intended to send further correspondence “we will hold back these letters and inform victims (by telephone) that he has written”. If the addressees did not want to receive the letters, their wishes would be respected.

The German government’s ombudsman for victims’ rights, Roland Weber, said the law should be changed to restrict the sharing of such contact information, telling the news agency DPA that the current policy “completely disregards protection of victims”.

Abdulmohsen had in repeated online posts before the attack voiced strongly anti-Islam views, anger at German authorities and support for far-right conspiracy theory narratives on the “Islamisation” of Europe.

The attack two months before Germany’s general election fuelled an already bitter debate on immigration and security with the far-right AfD party gaining in support.